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The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06

In Springfield, Mass, where the scandals
attending the sale of liquors have resulted in
much studying and much voting to diminish
the evil, milk bar" is suggested as prac-
tical reformer. In some Of the small cities
Of England milk is said to be crowdlng out
beer, much to the profit of Everyone but the
bissers and keepers Of tipping shops. A
nearer experiment tried in Boston offers
more real encouragement TO Springfield In
any of the Massachusetts eli es glass of
milk can be sold at three cents and pay a
fair profit, and skinned mix from the
creamery, perfectly sweet aud good, can be
sold at two cents per glass. On hot day
glass Of cool milk is much reished by most
men. Some years ago amilk hnr was opened
on one of the busiest streets of Boston where
men could step in and get rink with as
little delay as they could step into bar
room. The venture proved 50 popular that
the proprietor had to enlarge his quarters,
and then his place was continually crowded.
just what proportion of his customers were
men who would otherwise have gone to beer
saloons is fact not obtainable. If known
it might show whether the effect of the milk
bar" is for the immediate good of any num-
Der Of men addicted to harmful drinks.
That the continued popularity of such a re-
sort in any license city would be valuable
antidote for the saloons there can of course
be no doubt.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06
AREoR DAY FOR THE YEAR 1857

And especially invoke public attention TO the
great results which will grow from a small ex-
pendlture OF time and labor devoted to the plant
Ing OF trees. shrubs and vines; adjoining the pub
lie and private grounds and ways thereby confer
ring beneht on the community, and adding
wealth and beauty TO our homes and State, and
furnishing comfortable shade to succeeding gen
erat0ns.
recommend to the officials and teachers of our
public schools, as well as to all citizens of the
state that the day be devoted to such teaci ings
practical Illustrations, tree planting ana instruct
I've ceremonies. as will tend 10 cultivate the
hearts, elevate the tastes and train the hands, as
well as educate the minds of their pupils and OF
the people, and to so improve the time IN such
other efforts and undertakings as shall be in har-
mony with the general character of day so es-
tablished.
Given at the Council Chamber, at Augusta. this
= eleventh day OF April, in the year Of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seyen.
aud Of the Independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and eleventh.
JOSEPH II. BODWELL.
BY the Governor
ORAMANDAL SMITH, Secretary Of State.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06

The Kentucky Democrats declared their
confidence in the integrity and conscientious
devotion to duty of President Cleveland, and
especially complimented him "for the fideli-
ty and courage with which he has protected
the treasury from pillage by the exercise of
the veto power''-an allusion of course to the
veto Of the dependent persion bill; favored
honest civil service REFORM" which they
defined as "the enforcement Of the faithful
performance by persons appointed to office
OF all public duties entrusted to them," TO
this end demanding ''the strictest measure of
personal and party responsibility; declared
In favor of hard money, against sumptu-
airy laws; sympathized with Ireland viewed
with alarm the tendency to Capitalization of
power In the general government; and de-
manded an immediate reduction of the tariff
with view ultimately of abolishing the pro-
lection idea and making the tariff for reye-
nue. only. The platform was written by
Speaker Carlisle and Henry Watterson.
There Is no difficulty in detecting the lat
tcr's handiwork in the civil service reform
plank which is practically declaration
against the present civil service law and in
favor of the old spoils system. The compli-
mentary reference to the President was
doubtless the exclusive work Of Carlisle.
Unless his paper has greatly belied him Mr..
Watterson doesn't feel that way.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06
STATE OF MAINE.
BY tho Governor.
PROCLAMATION.

In conformity with an Act of the Legislature.
approved March 10, A. d.. 1887 /. 5osenh RI
Bodwell, Governor of the State of Maine, do here
Iy appoint and set apart
Tuesday, the Tenth Day of May,
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06

Worcester seems to be practically certain
Of becoming the seat Of great university,
to be called after its founder, Clark Uniyer-
slty. The incorporators have organized and
Mr. Clark has told just what he is going to
do. He proposes to give $4,000 for con-
structioD< .sns.auipment; 100000 for a
nbSs8y fundt 100000 for general fund;
$500, 0oS Ia real estate, works of art &c; and
100000 for fund for the maintenance of
three or more professorships, on condition
that 100000 be raised by others by July /,
1889. Here are about $1,000 00O-a pretty
good nest egg. There may be some doubts
about about the wisdom Of establishing
another university in New England, where
there are so many and so good ones already,
and good many will think that Mr.. Clark
might have done more good by bestowing
his munifcent bounty on some of those al
ready existing; but he has right to do
what he will with his own, and having made
such good use of his money 1t would be un-
generous to criticise because possibly he
might have done better
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06

The Hon. Charles DENLY, once of Indiana,
now minister of the United States at the
court Of China, writes to friend in Wash
ington that he has difficulty in making both
ends meet. He means for this expression to
apply to his salary, though it may be true of
his waistcoat also; for he says that the hum
bred foreign residents of Pekin give frequent
and superb entertainments. He finds it nee
esSary to enter into social life and entertain
as magnifcently as the rest In doing so he
spends so much Of his yearly salary of twelve
thousand dollars that ''he has difficulty in
making both ends meet" If at Pekin Mr..
DENLY finds it hard to live within twelve
thousand dollars, he may sympathize with
his brother diplomats who represent the
United States in the gay cities of London
and Paris on salaries Of seventeen thousand
five hundred dollars each. Or still more
appropriate object of his coincidence would
be our minister to Italy, who has the same
salary as the Chinese minister with which to
maintain in Rome the hospitality which
William Waldorf Astor taught travelling
Americans to expect at the legation OF their
country.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06

On its face it looks little strange that the
motion to arraign the London Times, which
is now SO active in the support OF the govern
ment and its coercion measure, should come
from one of the Tory members. The expla-
nation probably is that the motion was new
er intended to accomplish its ostensible pur-
pose, but was merely part Of a plan con-
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06

A big fight is,~s@faf- be impending in
II'e,sr,IIasyivnfia between Sam Randall and
Postmaster Harrity for the control of the
Democratic machine. Harrity is supposed
to represent the administration which is Sc
cretly opposed to Randall for his protective
views. The man that undertakes to beat
Randall in his own bailiwick has got big
Job on his hands, but supplied with weapons
by the administration in the shape of offices
the task is not an altogether hopeless one.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06
CURRENT CON- m EMIT.
THE LAST OF sCHNAEBELEs.
rpitfshllre Chronicle

lfIItSDufB NHrOnlcIe
Schnaebeles, as a national issue, has re-
tired into innocuous desuetude. He has gone
to meet Cutting.
THE CURIOUS CASE OF JACOB SHARP.
Washington Post.l
There is a humorous side to the trial of ia
cob Sharp now pending in New York city.
1T Is to decide the question whether he is
guilty, after three of the men whom he
bribed are prisoners in Sing Sing. The in
ference would seem to be that he is guilty or
else that they are innocent; but men are not
convicted on deductions and assumptions.
OF DOUBTFUL USE IN MAINE.
New York Tribune.l
People who are asking what kinds of trees
70 plant on Arbor Day may get hint from
Spencer's lines:
Inc sailing Pine; the Cedar, proud and tail;
Inc vlhe-prop Elm; the Poplar never dry;
Inc Duloer Oak; sole king OF forests ali
LIE aspen, good for slaves: the CYPRESS funeral:
tnd i ,sna, NEED OF mighty conquerors;
Anu RuSis sage the Fir, that weepeth still
Inc willow, worn OF hopeless paramours;
line new, oDedlent TO the bendeF's will;
Inc DlIci, LOT shatts the Sallow, for tile mill
The MYTH, sweet blending in the bitter wound.
The warlike Beechi the Ash for netting IN.
The fruitful Olive, and the Plantane roI1nd.'
The carver Holm; the Maple seldom inward
sound.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06

cocted by the Tory leaders to put the Ma
tlonalists in "hole." There can be little
doubt but the programme that has been car
rled out was carefully arranged beforehand.
MI Lewis's motion was cunningly devised
to give the impression that the Tories were
disposed TO treat the Irish members with
fairness, but its rejection was prearranged
and as substitute to be introduced at the
proper time the proposition to prosecute the
Times before the courts in behalf of Dillon
was prepared. At first blush the PROPOSE
ton looks fair. But it must be remembered
that the case would be tried before an Eng
lish jury and would inevitably assume po-
litical aspect. Under these circumstances
there would be no chance whatever Of Dill
Ions obtaining a verdict, no matter how
complete his evidence, But the trial would
furnish the Tories fine opportunity to get
at the secrets of the National League, and
rake up and expose to the public gaze all the
outrages that have been committed by men
who at some time have been members of
that organization 1t would not be difficult
OF course to make it appear to the public
that these outrages were sanctioned by the
League and were committed at its instiga-
ton or with its approval. Dillon having re-
fused to fall into the trap, the Tories will
probably loudly proclaim that the National
lists dare not submit their conduct to judic-
ial investigation, and make all the political
capital they can out of it, for political cap
ital is the object of all these manmuvres.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06

The United States commercial agent at
London, Ont, says the inter State commerce
law has had very disastrous effect on i'm
ports and exports to and from Canada to the
United States. The Canadian railways can
not give through rate over their own and
connecting American lines, and consequent
ly shippers will not send their goods forward
not knowing what the cost of their transport
tation win ultimately be. Unless some ar
rangement is soon made to obviate this diff
Guilty our commerce with Canada win be
practically destroyed
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06

The Augusta city council having voted to
abolish the liquor agency there is now no
place where liquor can be bought except IL
legally. On the assumption that the purpose
of the council was to make the pronibitory
liquor law obnoxious their action was ration
al But II, as they profess was the case,
they abolished the liquor agency to assist
prohibition they have done something that
viii produce quite the contrary effect.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06

The bold and determined way in which
the women are crowding themselves into the
front seats in these days is a spectacle to be
viewed with alarm" by those who believe
that feminine capability finds bounds for it.
self in crocheting and the cook book The
Fostering OF the grave faculties # law
schools, medical schools, theological institu-
tions and colleges Of the "old PLAN by as
piring young women in pursuit of degrees
instead OF husbands has become so common
that no one thinks anything of it. except the
poor perplexed faculties When young
woman got away from the Law school Of
Yale last year with a big degree the crowd
laughed good naturally, while the faculty
tremhled at what had happened. At the last
Congressional elections several women sue
ceeded in voting, although thIea tened with
the penalti.esSssofth e law before and after the
7 performance. In Kansas thirty women last
month went.into caucus and captured the
machine" in spite Of the regulars" on du-
ty. But those who have fears of what may
come of this terrible regiment of women
will read with serene satisfaction of the dis
cOmfture Of Miss A., G. Baker, who attempt
| ed to sit as a delegate in the august assem-
blage Of the one hundred and third annual
convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the diocese of Pennsylvania now
assembled in Philadelphia. When the roll OF
lay delegates was called it was noted with
surprise by many of the clergy and laymen
that st. Luke's Church. Chadd's Ford, had
sent Miss Baker to represent the laity OF
that parish in the Convention. There was
much whispering among the delegates about
this innovation, as it was the first time that
woman had ever been elected as dele
gate to the Convention. Here was a state OF
things for the committee on credentials to
attend to. 1t did not take them long to de-
eide that Miss Baker had no right to a seat
in the convention, since the constitution ex.
| pressly stated that the convention "Shall be
composed Of the clergymen and laymen in
the diocese" AS Miss Baker did not appear
to be specimen of either sort her name was
stricken from the roll of delegates; and she
poor woman, disappeared from the conven-
tion, to 90 back to Chadd's Ford undoubted-
ly in grief-and perhaps rage.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-06


shall offer them until further notice for s44
Polish another set We want y to Lex particularly att it perfect
se and call for them you want Chamber Then
with
black Walnut full ten pieces complete $40 and from that
buy until they have styles and got
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New Treatment for CONSUMPTION.

The star of Bergeon's treatment waning u
little, new forms Of cure for tubercular pa
tients are being found with undated vigor,
and NJ. Garcin comes to the front with hy-
drofuoric acid. This new method consists
in placing phthisical patients for an hour
every day in a small cabinet which contains
six cubic meters of air that is saturated will
hydrofuoric acid. This satmation is obtained
by pumping a current of air through Il gutta
percha bottle that contains 100 grammes of
the acid to 800 grammes Of distilled wafer
The quantity of air pumped in is renewed
every fifteen minutes, as the effect is quickly
exhausted.
The system has been tried for year past
in a number of cabinets that M. Garcia has
fitted up in room in his own house. and dur
ing the month Of August hundred patient
were submitted to the treatment. OF thus
number, fourteen remained as before, forty
one were improved, and thirty-five We're
cured while ten died. 1t is stated that un OK
the influence of this form of medication the
attacks of coughing diminish and finally
cease The Koch bacili cannot resist this
acid, as they at first are found to diminish in
number and soon they no longer segment u5
last they entirely disappear from the secre~
tions. The general state of the patients was
much improved, the appetite was increased.
the night sweats ceased, and some patients
treated over a year ago remain well. 1t seems
that the workmen at the celebrated glass
mandatory at Baccaret had first noticed
that the hydrofluoric acid they employed had
good effects on the health of consumptive ner~
sons.-Paris Cor. New York Medical Jcuru.l.
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sVibration, when continued for a lon
time" said the superintendent of an iron
foundry 'causes iron to lose its tenacity, and
| it becomes granulated and brittle, something
like pig iron, instead of being long intds
grain like wrought iron"
How do you account for this2' said t-a
reporter
II do not know" was the reply. ''Thers
are many things about iron that no ono can
explain
''What do you think of the chance of the
elevated roads having long lease Of life? =
there any likelihood of their breaking dowa
through the iron of which they are made be-
coming brittleT
''Not for good many years, but certainly
the vibration is bound to affect them through
time and something may snap. They ought
to be inspected very closely and renewed be-
fore the time came when it would be dang@r-
Gus to ride on. them. 1 have known heas f.
iron beams snap through vibration which
looked perfectly sound, and at the point os
breakage were apparently as strong as in any
other part, but the cohesiveness was goaa
and the sections presented a granulated Ia
stead of a fibrous appearance"
"Does the iron of rails when they are Of
wrought iron become brittle also?1 said the
reporter.
''No," said his informant, ''they do not
They acquire an entirely new property, or
rather they lose one essential property, tliat
of capacity for being welded. Every blacs.-
smith knows that a bit Of wrought iron ral-
cannot be welded if it has been worn fol q
number of years The parts split into fbafs
when heated and struck, but do not weld to-
gether."
GLOW do you account for the iron being
affected differently"
Il do not know All do know is that II
is the case, and every intelligent blacksrni6h
will tell you the same. New York Evening
TELEGRAM
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Heredity of Good Habits

The common conception of our relatio,, ia
our ancestors goes no farther than a general
apprehension that we can inherit their vices
am glad that 1t begins to enter into social
motives as a power, that as we are SO wifi
our children be. But desire to emphasize
the brighter side of the fact 1t is not a1l,-
true that drunkard's children are liatie 10
inherit a taste for intoxicants. and a r9i,.-7,
for unchastity; not only that oddities ,f
structure such as web toes OF a Hapsbnrg.
nose, are passed down in family line, bu5 ia
IS even more strongly true that all sor4s II
good habits can be inherited, and the be5,,ry
OF noble thought can be transmitted iaro
the features of a child. For a homelv TX.
ample we say: "Tom Slawson can't ho,r
paying his debts"-not so long as he ca, ,ret
the money. His father and GRANDPA i,ec
We're rigidly honest. Sharp enough to sseals
Yes; but the bias is tho other way Il is a.
drift in his blood to do the square thing.
A Yankee cannot sit still. He is bewitcE,a4
by ten generations of grandmothers rl.aF
never We're idle while awake. He twit hos
and tits his CHAIR and moves about stflds
Wmttles when he is stillest. That's the spt1.-'
ming Wheel and knitting needles, and darn.
ing needles and carding combs that are IN
his makeup, It's an extreme overdone caseE
Of industry. When wheel goes too fast al
gets on fire in spite of lubricating oil. T! ss$s
the way with these Yankees They fina lss1
inherit a bonfire and go to ashes. But sS
illustrates what | mean-a man inherits IT..
dustry, honor, good taste, common sense. as7
much as he does deviltry and consumption. Il
~, Maurice, M. D., in Globe-Democrat.
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Utilizing Pine straw.

In North Carolina a new industry is being
developed, in which pine straw or needles are
transformed into fiber OF wool and then soar
into yarn, which is woven into carpets and
mating. The peculiar balsanic fragrauyt
is retained, and offices and rooms cove1st
with the carpet give out a very pleasant qnc
no doubt healthful odor. The materiai i,
tough and wears fully as well as the cos
mating, and is much softer and more peas
ant to the foot. This pine wool is also tssec
as a substitute for hair in mattresses and oil
lows. AS it retains its elasticity and doe.
not readily pack, it will no doubt be- onlt
popular, especially in view of its being Tsoo
against vermin and possessing hygienic prop
critics of no small value to those stffsigGz
from diseases of the throat and lunas.-
American Agriculturist.
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Gen. Grant Almost Taken PrisoneI-A
Greeting to Phil Sheridan-Gen. Lee
Under the Apple Tree-The Meeting at
AIcLean'S House.
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To save time it was arranged that Union
officer, accompanied by one of Lees officers,
should carry this letter through the enerny's
lines. This route made the distance to Meade
nearly ten miles shorter than by the round
about way of the Union lines. Lee now
mounted his horse and directed Col. Charles
Marshall, his military secretary, to accom-
pany him. They started for Appon1attox
court house in company with Babcock and
followed by mounted orderly. When the
par reached the village they met one of its
rec @ is, named Wilbur Mclean, who was
t. TINT Gen. Lee wanted to occupy con-
ycaient rcom in some house in the town.
Mclean ushere1 them into the sitting room
Of one of the first houses he came to, but
upon looking about and finding it quite small
and meag erly furnished, Lee proposed finding
something more commodious and better fitted
for the occasion. Mclean then conducted
the party to his own house, about the best one
in the town, where they awaited Gen. Grants
arrival
The house had comfortable wooden
porch with seven steps leading up to it, A
hall ran through the middle from front to
back, and on each side was a room having
two windows, one in front and one in rear.
Each room had two doors opening into the
hall. The building stood little distance
back from the street, with yard in front,
and to the left was gate for carriages and
roadway running to stable in rear. We
entered the grounds by this gate and dis
mounted. In the yard were seen a fine large,
gray horse, which proved to be Gen. Lees,
and good looking mare belonging to Col
Marshall. An orderly in gray was in charge
of them, and had taken off their brides to
let them nibble the grass,
Gen. Grant mounted the steps and entered
the house. As he stepped into the hall, Col.
Babcock who had seen his approach from
the window, opened the door Of the room on
the left in which he had been sitting with
Gen. Lee and Col. Marshall, awaiting Gen.
Grants arrival, The general passed in.